{"id":998327,"date":"2026-03-14T09:25:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998327"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T04:25:22","slug":"digg-cuts-jobs-after-facing-ai-bot-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/14\/digg-cuts-jobs-after-facing-ai-bot-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Digg cuts jobs after facing AI bot surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digg is laying off staff citing &#8220;brutal reality&#8221; in \u200bthe current digital environment \u200band a surge in artificial intelligence-driven bot activity, \u200bmore than a year after the once-popular content aggregator announced its comeback. <\/p>\n<p>CEO Justin Mezzell said in a blog post on Friday that \u200cthe company \u2060is downsizing \u2060its team to a small core group after failing to find product-market fit against established social media platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The company grappled with an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; influx \u200bof sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts that undermined the platform&#8217;s voting and engagement systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digg is laying off staff citing &#8220;brutal reality&#8221; in \u200bthe current digital environment \u200band a surge in artificial intelligence-driven bot activity, \u200bmore than a year after the once-popular content aggregator announced its comeback. CEO Justin Mezzell said in a blog post on Friday that \u200cthe company \u2060is downsizing \u2060its team to a small core group after failing to find product-market fit against established social media platforms. The company grappled with an &#8220;unprecedented&#8221; influx \u200bof sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts that undermined the platform&#8217;s voting and engagement systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-998327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}